2008 Press Releases

Plano, TX, November 28, 2008. No Magic, Inc., a leading provider of integrated modeling environment software and services, today announced the General Availability (GA) release of MagicDraw® 16.0. This version of No Magic's award-winning offering enhances its enterprise-wide automation capabilities beyond simple code generation with the embedding of Apache Software Foundation's Velocity template-based engine into the MagicDraw® product. The open source Velocity engine has been extended to provide advanced generation of artifacts such as custom reports, scripting, sophisticated programming code (beyond simple getters/setters) as well as the capability to directly invoke Java byte-code. It is part of the enhancements No Magic is making across its product suite to increase stakeholder value through improved modeling automation.

Plano, TX, October 16, 2008. No Magic, Inc., a leading provider of business architecture and modeling software, announces the release of Cameo DataHub 2.0. Cameo DataHub is an enterprise-class product offering enabling the import, export, continuous synchronization and creation of relationships between popular business products including No Magic's own Cameo™ Requirements+, MagicDraw®, SysML and DoDAF/UPDM as well as Telelogic's DOORS, IBM Rational's RequisitePro and CSV formatted files. Compatibility with additional tools to be announced soon.

Cameo™ DataHub is an integral part of No Magic's recently introduced Cameo™ Suite bringing true interoperability to the business and IT market by solving data interoperability issues between different vendors. As an enabler to your enterprise, the DataHub product enhances traceability through all aspects of the business and development lifecycle (requirements gathering, business analysis, design, implementation, testing, etc.). Cameo™ DataHub benefits executive stakeholders, business analysts and developers alike to communicate more effectively independent of specific tools being utilized. A business analyst may use any combination of popular requirements tools such as Cameo™ Requirements+, DOORS, RequisitePro or other tools supporting CSV to maintain continuous data integrity through automatic synchronization. With Cameo™ DataHub, all of the leading requirements offerings in the market may be seamlessly transformed to numerous frameworks and modeling languages in MagicDraw®. Because of the linkage created between design and requirements, updates from requirements-to-design may be automatically performed thereby preventing data ambiguity and ensuring project success.

Plano, TX, July 30, 2008. No Magic, Inc., a leading vendor of business architecture and modeling software, announces the release of Cameo Requirements+ 2.0. This version of the 4th generation business and software requirements management tool adds extreme flexibility for business users to define business requirements that meet their process and business goals. A business can now truly create, manage, and manipulate requirements and related information without boundaries. Cameo Requirements+ can relate any kind of information you can imagine. Information can be laws, rules, media, documents, web pages, or any other type of custom data that applies specifically to your unique business needs. A business analyst can define the constraints and relationship between each special element for his specific business domain. Specific business rules can be defined within the tool to enforce a high level of data integrity and correctness, thus allowing the business analysts to prevent human error.

Plano, TX, July 8, 2008. No Magic, Inc., a leading vendor of architecture and business modeling software, announces the release of MagicDraw 15.5. This version of No Magic's award-winning business process, and architecture modeling tool adds Project Branching and Model Merge capabilities that allow multiple development teams to easily work on a single product. Provided/Required Interfaces of Port now can be displayed in the Composite Structure diagram using lollipop/fork notation. Active Validation has also been added to instantly checks model, displays errors in the model and suggests solutions. Automatic and manual synchronization of parameters and arguments was improved. Open API has been changed to reflect the updates in the UML metamodel. Additionally, enhancements to the Open API and Report Wizard were added.

Plano, TX, January 7, 2008. No Magic, Inc., a leading vendor of architecture modeling software, today announced the release of MagicDraw® 15.0. This version of No Magic's award-winning business process, and architecture modeling tool adds the full UML 2.1.2 support. It includes all changes of UML 2.1, UML 2.1.1 and UML 2.1.2 specifications. All changes are reflected in notation, XMI, EMF interchange, UML 1.4 import and all other related functionalities. Open API has been changed to reflect the updates in the UML metamodel. Also, the multiple usability enhancements were added.